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Jamie Sarkonak: Progressive judge spares violent loan shark criminal record to avoid deportation

A Ghanaian work permit holder got a conditional discharge for violently taking a woman's phone as collateral

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Last month, it wasn’t just a judge who excused a Ghanaian work permit holder for beating a woman in the street over an unpaid loan. It was also the Crown prosecutor.

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The 34-year-old, known only as E.A. due to a publication ban, admitted to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice that he lured a woman who owed him money into a basement to demand repayment. The victim’s account was that, at this point, he put her in a choke hold, tried to rape her and took her phone as collateral, but in court only the phone theft was established to have occurred. (E.A. had countered that there was no attempted raping or choking, that the woman had a motive to fabricate such a story, and that the woman chased him out).

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Security footage showed them both returning to the street, where they fought until E.A. pushed the woman to the ground and sped off in his car, leaving her alone on a dark, suburban road without a way to contact........

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